Posted on 02/17/2021 1:22:55 PM PST by Renkluaf
To the right-wing folks who are INCORRECTLY claiming greening the grid caused the power outages in Texas: YOU ARE WRONG!
In fact ==>
1) If we had a ton of local rooftop solar on homes and businesses and on solar carport parking lot structures AND storage batteries in those places, including in our homes, a lot more people would have power RIGHT NOW in Texas!
2) The technology exists to allow people to bring electricity into their homes from an electric vehicle’s batteries for up to three to five days. This technology is not yet in widespread use, but it could, and should, be!
In sum, renewables such as solar + micro-grids + battery storage capacity ARE the answer to issues such as the Texas power outages. NOT “the problem”!
And this combination can even deliver energy self sufficiency to many American homes. How is that not the most AMERICAN thing there is? Self-reliance!
Indeed, the local self-reliance that local rooftop and parking lot carport solar + batteries would deliver is WAY more American than VAST utility monopolies controlling the grid AND your (lack of) power, which is the unfortunate, and rather un-American, situation we have now!
Son has solar panels on his roof in Buda Texas. They became inop when snow covered while the power was out.
And don’t forget the power of unicorn farts
If Ands and Buts were fruits and nuts it’d be Christmas every day...
Fools
If the problem was the conventional power plants, how do the northern states and Canada keep the lights on in the winter?
Some zottage is in order here....
And it works even better if you keep your car plugged in and charging in the meantime.
natural gas storage tanks would eliminate the problem. Texas doesn’t store it like most places do since they figure they can just pump it when they need it. But it got so cold they couldn’t pump it, so they were stuck.
First of all - the major problem in Texas is their environment is not hardened for this type of heat. Water in the Natural Gas pipes is freezing into ice and stopping the flow. Pumps and wellheads are freezing because they are outside.
But, without improvements of at least an Order of Magnitude (10 times) solar power and batteries will not be an option.
Trying hard to cover their green butts now from all the angry frozen customers.
Oh, come on, when we get the unicorns and rainbows working on the problem, it will be like skipping though the daisies...
Elon musk set up some huge battery farms in Austrailia that cured a lot of their problems.
Wonder if that would help.
lol...so, wonder if these people considered weather events such as hail storms? Extended periods of cloud cover/rain such as in tropical season. Ice/snow covered panels.
lol
This birdwatcher is no economist— and he surely is no scientist.
HOURLY ELECTRIC GRID MONITOR
https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/daily_generation_mix/regional/REG-TEX
HOURLY ELECTRIC GRID MONITOR
https://www.eia.gov/beta/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/daily_generation_mix/regional/REG-TEX
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